Yorkshire-born award-winning singer-songwriter and broadcaster Clare Teal is one of the UK’s most celebrated and much-loved singers. With her stunning voice, encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, swing and big band music, and her innate warmth and wit, Clare is a sought-after singer as well as a prolific recording artist and popular broadcaster. Clare has been a radio broadcaster since 2005 and presents The Clare Teal Show for Jazz FM every Sunday night. She presented her own show for many years on BBC Radio 2.
Clare has recorded and released 15 critically acclaimed albums including ‘Don’t Talk’ for Sony Jazz that reached the UK top 20 as well as collaborating with Sir Van Morrison on his album ‘Duets: Reworking the Catalogue’ resulting in the A listed Radio single ‘Carrying A Torch’.
Accompanied by her Pianist, Trio, 7-piece Mini Big Band, 9-piece Big Mini Big Band or 17-piece Hollywood Orchestra, Clare performs up and down the country throughout the year at festivals and high-profile events. She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Anvil Arts, Sage Gateshead, Love Supreme, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival, Glastonbury Festival, and BBC Proms in the Park, as well as singing with renowned orchestras and Big Bands including the Hallé, BBC CO, RTÉ CO, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Big Band (hr-Big Band) BBC NOW and BBC SSO.
Clare won British Jazz Singer of the year in 2005, 2007, 2015 and 2017, BBC Jazz Singer of the Year in 2006 and Boisdale Jazz Singer of the year 2016. She was awarded Arts & Entertainment Personality of the Year at the 2004 & 2011 Yorkshire Awards, a Gold Badge by BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) in 2011 and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music by the University of Wolverhampton in 2015. Clare became an Ambassador for the National Jazz Archive in 2020.
***** – Mojo
Absolutely superb – Tim Rice
We love her – Ken Bruce
She’s a triple threat – Michael Bublé
A sensation in the world of jazz – Mail on Sunday
